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In this Oct. 24, 2012, file photo, then-Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., uses a bull horn at a campaign stop in Watertown, Mass. Three years ago, Brown was a little-known Republican state senator from Massachusetts who shocked Democrats by winning a U.S. Senate seat. Now, having compiled a voting record more moderate than his tea party allies would have liked and losing his bid for a full term, Brown is considering whether to seize a second chance to return to the Senate in New Hampshire where he owns a second home. Brown is also mulling a future presidential run as evidenced though his own words and visits to Iowa. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Speaking at a breakfast hosted by the North Central Chamber of Commerce in Leominster on Friday, former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, a Massachusetts Republican, said that the federal government had dropped the ball in relation to the crisis in Syria by waiting too long to act.

The Worcester Telegram and Gazette also reported that Brown recalled Congress discussing surgical military strikes a year ago when no action was taken.

"Nothing was done, and now we are up over 100,000 (deaths)," Brown reportedly told the group. "We are over 100,000, and we have the sarin gas."

Brown said that the country needs clear foreign policy in the region, perhaps alluding to President Barack Obama this week backing off of a hard push for military strikes in Syria. Obama initially said that air strikes were his chosen response after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad allegedly used sarin gas on civilians amid a bloody struggle with a rebels in that country.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday the prospects for resuming the Syrian peace process are riding on the outcome of U.S.-Russian talks aimed at securing Syria's chemical weapons arsenal that lurched into a second day.

As far as politics are concerned, Brown has kept his name in circulation and his options open for the future. Brown is not a candidate for governor of Massachusetts in the 2014 election, and he is openly supporting the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nominee Charlie Baker. But, Brown told reporters at an April event in Nashua, N.H., that he isn't ruling out a run for the U.S. Senate in that state.

Brown, who was testing the waters in Iowa recently for a potential future presidential run, will return to the state on Nov. 12 as the keynote speaker for a GOP organization's annual Ronald Reagan Dinner. Closer to home, Brown will give the keynote address at the Connecticut Republican Chairman’s Dinner on October 2nd in Norwalk, Conn.